Author
: Hasan Ahmed Ansari
Recent
history says the Pakistan Film Industry should operate by the Chinese calendar:
2007 was the Year of Khuda Kay Liye, 2008 the Year of Ramchand Pakistani, 2010
the Year of Virsa and 2011 the Year of Bol. In that line 2012 can only be known
as the Year of the Academy Award (for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy).
Ultimately
the past few years have been a dirty triumph for the paranoid. You don’t need
to conduct a research to establish the harsh reality that the Pakistani Film
Industry or more popularly referred to as “Lollywood” has not just declined but
seems to have fallen into an abyss.
The
signs had become evident during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s but the
Industry who had been resting on the laurels of the filmmakers from the “Golden
Era of Lollywood” decided to overlook the cist and allowed it to develop into a
tumor which sucked all of the life out of the Industry.
The
years between 1979 leading up to 21st Century or the “Period of Crisis” – as
referred to by the avid Pakistani movie-goers – was identified for becoming
loud and localized, wanting in artistic or aesthetic merits.
